With a shortage of subject teachers causing concern, Lawrence Watt sits in on a college Maths class with an award-winning teacher

Schools are slowly claiming back University Entrance, after a change in the qualification saw a dramatic fall in pass rates in low-decile areas.

Deciles have wrongly been used as a proxy for school quality. This is invidious, wrong, and distorts how parents see schools, writes Professor John Hattie.

Fear about stigmatising students is one the teaching profession can deal with, writes Barbara Ala'alatoa. We manage lots of funding and resources issues for particular students without labelling, and we are good at it.

NZ's long tail of educational underachievement will require a multi-faceted approach and any funding changes need to be significant to have any realistic chance of really making a difference, writes Alan Vester.

A member of the Dilworth Old Boys Association has labelled the handling of a recent race-related incident "a disgrace".

Four Old Boys of an Auckland boys school were suspended from the association after making comments about "ethnic imbalance".

For anxious students around the country the wait is over: NCEA exam results are now available online.

The education and lives of young people is not about political points scoring. It is about expectations of excellence and clear pathways of which I am a proud to be a part, writes Mulitalo Filipo Levi.

Secondary schools are forced to look overseas for maths and physics teaching staff as minimal numbers of students are qualifying here.

When I was their age I was revising for a series of three-hour exams. It was pass or fail, regardless of the previous two years' work. That's not fair, writes Lisa Rodgers.

COMMENT: They don't understand how under NCEA everyone can be a winner, writes Peter Lyons.

A move by one of the country's most exclusive private schools to take girls at a younger age has seen an exodus of 50 students from its competitors.

Teenage football star Grace Jale is off to Brazil with the Football Ferns, but first ... exams.

We shouldn't just take it at as axiomatic that low decile means low achievement. What we need now is evidence. We need to work collegially and collectively across deciles, writes Barbara Ala'alatoa.

Illness has been a major factor in increasing numbers of children missing school.

What makes the biggest difference to a kid's education is something every kid and parent knows - the quality of the teaching in the classroom, writes Education Minister Hekia Parata

Teaching economics to adolescent boys often requires the use of bad analogies to reduce their natural inclination towards sleep, writes Peter Lyons. I am blessed with a monotone that invites slumber.

While most teenagers spend their spare time checking their Facebook updates, Yasmine Dai has been more interested in staring into murky tanks of sea water.

The headmaster of one of Auckland's most popular boys' schools will defer retirement to lead the revitalisation of a struggling school across town.

What we need to be talking about is the kind of learning that we think is appropriate before we get to assessment, writes Steve Maharey. Good learning begins with the curriculum.

The trend is growing for programming to become the language of choice in schools.

It's been humbling to watch reactions of our own students and teachers to the events of the past week, writes Manurewa High principal Salvatore Gargiulo.

Rather than blame CIE for engendering a lack of confidence in NCEA, perhaps they should look at NCEA and discuss how best to improve it, writes John Morris.

Without a national achievement target, how would the PPTA suggest the performance of the eduction system be checked?

Grumpy teenagers who don't want to get out of bed have had their complaints vindicated by scientists who analysed 30 years of sleep science.

When it comes to hooking young Kiwis on science, there might be no brighter way than making things glow in the dark.

The principal who introduced Cambridge exams to New Zealand says he believes the qualification still has a place here, as a top school opts out.